The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-04-01
Office IF UdOIphO Wolfe,
Sole Importer of Schiedam- A' onlatic
. Schnapps. &
No. %, Beayer-Street,
Nrr NnuK Nnunmhnr- g 1868.
NEW York, November 3, 1868.


NEW YoHK, November 8, 1868.
10 the People Of the South.
WHEN THEPURE MEDICINAL
RESTORATIVE, now 50 widely
known as~WOLFES SCnlEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was introduced iuto the
world under the endorsement OF four
thousand leading members uf the mcdi-
cal profession. some twenty years ago,
its proprietor was well aware that II
could not wholly escape the peualty at
tachcd to all new and useful prepara-
tions. He, therefore, "epdeavored to
invest it with strongest possible safe
guard against. countcrfeiters, and to
render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to
distinguished chemists ipr analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest Spirit
ever. manufactured. Its purity and
properties having been thus ascertaincd,
lam pies of the article were forwarded to
ten thousand phySiciuus, including all
the leauipg practitioners in the United
States, tor the purposes of experiment.
A circular, requesting 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 ofthe 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
adulteraled, aud therefore unit tor
medical purposes. The peculiar. excel,
lence aud strength OF the oil Of juniper,
which formed one Of the principal in
grcdicn,s Of the Sehuapps, together
with an uualloyed character of the alco-
hol element, give it, in the estimation
of the faculty., marked superiority
over every other dlffusive stimulant as
diurctic, tonic and restorative. o. .'. -. %.
These satisfactory credentials from
professional men OF the highest rank,
were published in condensed furm
and enclosed with each bottle Of tho
Schnapps; as one Of its gcnuinentss -
O.her precautions against fraud were
also adopted; a patent was obtained for
the article, the label was copyrighted, u
Juc sin.iie Vi the proprict RS autograph
signature WIS a,tachcdto each Label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepar
alton were sealed with his private seal
No article hud ever been sold in this
country under the name OF Sehnapps
prior to the Introduction If Wolic's
Schicdan AROMATIC Schnapps, in 1851;
and the label was deposited, as his trad,
mark, in the United District Court fol
the Southern District of New York du
ring that year. ..- .... :-.... ~
!. 1t might be supposed BY persons un'
acquainted with the daring character oi
the pirates who prey uPon the rrputa'
ton oI honorable merchants by vending
.delcterious trash under their nalLe, tEal
the projections So carefully thrown u
Found these Schnapps would have pre-
cluled tnc inrroductlons and sale ol
countcrteits They seem, however, only
to have stimulated the rapacity Uf im
posters. The trade mark Of rhe pro-
prictor has been stolen; the iudorsc
mcnt which his Schie'lam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received fam the medi
cal profession has beeu claimed by men
dacIouI humhugs; his labels and bottles
have been initiated, Ills advertisements
paraphrased, his circulars cope'i, ant
worse than all, dtshouorable retailers
after disposing Of the genuine contcnt:
Of his bottles, have filled them up will
common gip, Tic most dclc:eriuus o
all liquors, aud thus made his name anc
brand a cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession
and the sick, for whom the Schiedan
Aromatic Schuapps is prescribed as 4
rem dy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and surprcs
sion Of these ucfarious practices. Tho
genuine article, manufactured at tho
establishment Of the undersigned III
Schiedan, Holland, is distilled from Il
barley of the finest quality, and fa'
vorcd 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 Cur.
rosive element. e.. ..'
Complaints have been received from
the leading physicians and families in
Southern States of the sale Of cheap
limitations of the Schicdam Aromatic
Schuapps in those markets; and trav-
cller- who are in the habit Of using it as
an antidote to the baneful influence of
uuwholcsome 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, aud to forward to
him the uames Of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in tho
n t.,