The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-03-11
Office IF UdOlph0 Wolfe, !.
Sole Importer of Schiedane Aromatic

OchndPPS. =
No. %, BeaveF-Street, :.
New YORK, November 8, 1858.
TO the People of The South.
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL
RESTORATIVE, now SO widely
known as WOLFE'S SCHlEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world under the endorsement OF four
thousand leading members Of the medl-
cal profession some twenty years ago,
its proprietor was we'll aware that 1t
could not wholly escape the penalty at
.ached to all new and useful prepara-
tions. He, therefore, endeaVered to
invest it with strongest possible safe
guard against counterfeitera and to
render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to
distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit
ever manufactured. Its purity and
properties having been thus ascertalned,
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, reIuestiuga trial of the
preparation and a report Of the result,
accompanied each specimen -Four
thousand o! 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-
merce, all of which were more or less
adulterated, aud therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excel
lence and strength of the oil Of juniper,
which formed one of the principal in
gradients of the Schuapps, together
with an unalloyed character oftbe alco-
hol element, give it, in the estimation
Of the faculty, marked superiority
over every other dlffusive stlmulant as
diuretic, 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 =
Other precautions against fraud were
also adopted; patent was obtained for
the article, the label was copyrighted, a
Jac simile of the proprietrs autograph
signature was attached to each label aud
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 Schnupps
! prior to the introduction cf Wolfe's
Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851;
and the label was deposited, as his trade
mark, in the United District Court for
tho S.u- -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-
tion Of honorable merchants by vending
deletcrious trash under their name, that
the projections so carefully thrown a.
round these Schnapps would have pre-
cluled the inlroductions and sale Of
counterfeits They seem, however, only
to have stimulated the rapacity of i'm
posters. The trade mark of the pro-
prietor has been stolen; the indorse,
mcnt which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the mcdi.
cal profession has been claimed by men.
dacious humbugs; his labels and bottles
have been initiated, his advertisements
paraphrased, bis circulars copied, and
worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
after disposiDg of the genuine contents
of his bottles, have-Glled them up with
common gin, the most deleterious OF
all liquors, and thus made his name and
brand a cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession,
and the sick, for whom the Schicdam
Aromatic Schnapps is prescribed as a
remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion of these nefarious 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.
rosiye clement.
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 baneful influence of
unwholesome river water, testify that
cheap gin, put up in Schnapp bottles,
is frequently palmed off upon the un.
wary. The agents Of the undersigned
have been requested to institute inqui-
ries on the subject, and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the
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