The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-13

So impo' rr cMe Scaie.iani .tronlatir .rchnapps
NO. 2.s Bclycr.Strcct.
NEW YORK, November s. 1865
TO the People of the Southern states:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WoLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS, WIS in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of -four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession twenty years ago, its
proprietor was we aware that it coultr not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endcavored 10 invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it d-
cult and dangerous It was submitted to disin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's pur-
ty and properties having been thus ascertaincd, sam
Piles of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for 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 meu In
the Union promptly responded Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long boon wanted by
tile profession as reliance could be placed on The
ordinary liquors of commerce, oil OF which were
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unit Tor
medical purposes. The peculiar ex clence and
strength of the Of of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients OF tho Schnappa together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
meDt give it. in the estimation of the faculty, a
marked snperlo-ty over every other difusire stmu-
liant as dturetic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
nc tbaL onl,r mi N
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle Of the
schnapps, one Of the guarantees Of lite genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patont was obtained for the article. the
label copy rishted fac s,ite of the propIie'ors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his aud that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed with
bis private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps, in 1851; and the label Was deposited, as
his trade mark in TIE United States District Court
for tho Southern District of New York during that
year.
1t misat be supposed by persons unacquninted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofAonorabc merchants by vend-
ing deleteous trash urdcr their naDe that the pro-
tections 80 carefully thzewn around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seen however, only to have
stimulated tic rapacity of mpostors. The trade
mark of til proprietor has been solen the inaorse-
ment which his -Schiedaru Aromatic schnapps alone
received from. the medical profession has been
clcined by mcndacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have bc,n initiated his advertisements para
phrascd, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorable rctsers after dsposins of the genuine
contents OF his bottles, lave filled them up with
common gin the most deoterious of all liquors. aud
thus 1oade his name aud brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom The Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps IS pre-
scribcd as remedy, equally intcrcsei with the
proprietor in the deteeon and suppression Of these
nciarior15 practices Tho genuine article. maruac-
turcd Mt tae establishment Of the undersigned in
chiedan, olland. ls distilled irom barley of the
finest quality and favored With an essential extract
OF the berry of tho Italian juuiper OF uncquolcd pu-
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor. 1t s freed from every acrimonious
and corrective ooment.
Complaints havo boen received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations Of the Schic3am Aro-
matte Schnspps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit o using 1t as an andote to the
baneful influence Of unwholcsomc river water, tes-
tfy that cheap gn put up i'll Schiedara bottles, is
frequently palmed OF upon tho upTary. The
agents of tue undersigned have been requested to
institute INQUIRIES en- the subject and 70 forward TO
him the names of such parties as tboy may asc.g-.
tain to be engaged ~ the atrocous syetem of decep
ton In conclusion. the undersigned would say tl.at
he has produced. from under the hands of the most
distineus hea mer of science in Am1rica proofs un
answerabls Of tie purity and medicinal excel.
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps !. thas
he has expended many thousand. dollars in sur
rounding it will. guarantees and safeguards which
he designed shcad project the r.bhc and himself
aeainst fraudulent limitations; tAst he has siown it
10 be the only liquor tho wcrld that can be UNI
formly depended upon Us unad CELEBRATED; ths. no has
challenged Investigation, analysis, compassion and
expcrment IN all It's forms; nad from every ordeal
the preparation whi h bears bis name, scaand trade
mark, has como Of triumphant He thesaiore, feels
il duty he owes to his tcowcitzrns generally, To
the medical profession ard the sick, to dcnounee
md exuose the charlatans who couneleit these eNi
1ences OF identity, and 10 calls upoathe press and
tho rublic 10 uid him in is efforts TO remedy sa great
an evil.
The following lettsas aud certificates from tho
lending physicians and che nlsi. of this city will
proye to The reader That all goods sold by the under
siyncl are oil that. they are rerIe cnted 20 be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.