The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-27


% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK. Nov. 8, GS.
To The People Of the Southern States.
When tho puro medicinal restorative. now SO
widely known as Wolfc's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into tho world under the endorse
mcnt of 1000 leading members of the medical pro-
fossion, some twenty years ago. it's proprietor was
we'll aware that il could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations.
lie, therefore, cndcavored 10 invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
crs and to rcnder all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
ca chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the pUrest spirit ever manufactured Its pulitv
and properties having been thus asccrtained
samples OF tie article were forwarded to 10 OOO
physclans, including all the leading practitioners
III the United States, for purposes OF experiment
circular, requesting 4 trial OF the preparation
ana report of the result. accompanied each
specimen. 1000 Of tho most eminent medical men
in the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
of the article were unanimously favorable. Such u
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
thc profession rs no reliance could he placed on
were more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. The peculiar excel
ience and strength of the oil of Juniper, which
formed ono OF the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with unnoyed character
OF the alcoholic clement, give it, III the estimation
OF tho faculty, marked superiority over every
other dlifusiVe stimulant as dmretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank were published in a
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps as one OF the guarantees of it's
Senulneness Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patcnt was obtained for the
inc proprletor's autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover his name and that of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles. and the
corks sealed with his private SEAL No article
had ever been sold in this country under the me
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfes 8
Schlcdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
LABEL was deposited as his trade mark, in tho
United States District Court for tho Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year.
IL might be supposed, by persons unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants oy
vending deletcrions trash under their name that
the projections 80 carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
ana sale or counterteits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters
me trade mark OF the proprietor has been stolen:
tho endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
icsslon has been claimed by mendacious humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad
vertsemonts paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and, worse than ALL dishonorAble retailers, after
disposing of the genuine contents of his bottles,
have TILED them up with common gin, the most
dcleterious of all liquors. and thus made his namc
anu brand cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and tho sick,
for whom the Echicdam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as aremedy, equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishments OF the under
signed, i'll Schedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley of the finest quality, md favored with an
essential extract of the berry of the Italian
juniper, of unequallcd purity. by process un-
known in the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive ele-
ment.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States
OF tho sale of cheap limitations Of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who are in the habit of using it as an antdoto
to the baneful influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schicdam
bottles, is frequently palmcd off UPON the unwary
The agents OF the undersigned havo been requested
to institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
ward to him the names OF such parties they
may ascertain to bo engaged in the atrocious
system OF deception. In conclusion the under
signed would say that he has produced, from under
the hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerablo OF tho
purity and medicinal excellence of tho Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps; that he has expended many
hou5and dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent imta-
tons that he has shown it to be the only liquor in
tie world that can be uniformly depended upon
as unadulturated; that he has challenged invest-
gauon, analysis, comparison, and experiment in
oil It's forms; and from every ordeal the prepa-
ration which bears his name, seal and trade mark,
has como of triumphant. He, therefore, feels 1t a