The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-03-25
Office Of UdOIphO Wolfe,

UnlCG OI UuOl pllO WOllt,
Sole Importer of Schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps.
No. %, Beayer-Street,
NEW YoHK, November 8, 1868.
To the People Of the South.
WHEN THEPURE MEDICINAL
RESTORATIVE, now 50 widely
known as WOLFE'S SCHlEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world under the endorsement Of four
thousand leading members of the medi-
ca, profession some twenty years ago,
its proprietor was we'll aware that 1t
could not wholly. escipe the penalty at
tached to all new and useful prepara.
tions. He, therefore, eudeavored to
invest it. with. strongest possible safe
guard against couutcrfeiters, and to
render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. It was submitted to
distinguished chemists Tor analysis, aud
pronounced by them the 'purest spirit
ever manufactured. Its purity and
properties having been thus aseertained,
samples of the article were forwarded to
ten thousand physicians, including all
the leauing practitioners in the United
States, for the purposes of experiment
A circular, requesting trial of the
preparation and report Of the result,
accompanied each specimen. -Four
thousand Of the most eminent medical
men in the Union promptly responded.
Their opinions of the article were unan-
imously favorable. Such preparation
they said, had long been wanted by the
profession, as no reliance could be
placed on the ordinary liquors of COM
mcrce, all of which were more or less
adulterared, aud therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excel.
lence aud strength of the oil Of juniper,
which formed one of the principal in
gredicnls Of the Schuapps, together
with an unalloyed character of the alco-
hol clement, give it, in the estimation
of the faculty, a marked superiority
over every other dIffusive stimulant as
diurctic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from
professional men of the highest rank,
were published in condensed form
and enclosed with each bottle Of the
Schnapps; as one Of its genuinencss =
o., her precautions against fraud were
also adopted; patent was obtained for
the article, the label was copyrighted, a
tac simHe of the propriet'rs autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of the prepar.
alton were sealed with his private seal
No article had ever been sold in this
country under the name Of Sehnapps
prior to the introduction cf Wolte's
Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851;
and the label was deposited, us his trade
mark, in the United District Court for
the Sou. hern District Of New York du-
ring that year. :
1t might be supposed by persons un-
acquainted with the daring character Of
the pirates who prey upon the rcputa-
ton OF honorable merchants by vending
deleterious trash under their nalLc, that
the projections SO carefully thrown u
round these Sehnapps would have pre-
cluhed the introductions and sale of
countcrfeits They seem, however, only
to have stimulated the rapacity of i'm
posters. The trade mark Of the pro-
prictor has been stolen; the indorse.
mcnt which his Sclriedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the ncdi-
cal profession has been claimed by men.
dacious humbugs; his labels and BOTTLES
have been initiated, lis advertisements
paraphrased, his circulars copied, and
worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
after disposing Of the genuine contents
of his bottles; have filled them up with
common gin, The most dcleierious OF
all liquors, aud thus made his name aud
brand a cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession,
and the sick, for whom the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps is prescribed as q
remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion of these netarious practices. The
genuine article, manufactured at the
establishment of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley Of the finest quality, and fla
vored with an essential extract of the
berry of the Italian juniper, of unequal
led purity. BY process unknown in
the preparation Of any liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and cor.
rosive element.
Complaints have been received from
the leading physicians and families in
Southern States of the sale of cheap
limitations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and trav-
eller| who are in the habit of using it as
an antidote to the taneful influence of
uuwholesome river water, testify that
cheap gin, put up in Schuapp bottles,
is frequently palmed off upon the un.
wary. The agents of the undersigned
have been requested to institute inqui-
r;os on tbo cub;oot and m forward tn