The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-11
wore more or lees adulterated, and, thsrefore.

OF tho faculty, q marked superiority over every
other diffusive ".imulant as diuretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank were published in a
condemned form, and enclosed with each bottle
or the Schnapps, rs one Of tho guarantees of it's
genuineness Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted, fac sinle of
the proprietor's autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his namc and that of the
corks were sealed with his private seal No article
had ever been sold in this country under the name
OF Schnapps prior to the Introduction OF Wolfe's
label label was deposited, as his trade mark, in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trct OF New York during that year.
II might DO supposed, cy persons unacuuainted
with the daring character OF the pirates who prev
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants by
vending deleterious trash under their name, that
the projections 30 carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
and sale OF counterfeits. They SEEM however
only to have stimulated the rapacity of imposters.
Tho trade mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
Iesson has been claimed by mendacious humbugs;
MS iaoes an bottles have been initiated, his ad-
vertlsements paraphrasea his circulars copied
and, worse than ALL dishonorable retailers, after
have tiled them up with common gin, the most
deeterious OF all liquors, and thus made his name
anu brand n cover for poison.
Tho public. the medical profession and the sick
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps il
prescribed as remedy, equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
manufactured at the establishment of the under
signed, in Schcdam, Holland is distilled from a
barley of the finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of the Italian
jumper, OF uneQualled purity by process un-
known i'll the preparation Of any other liquor it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive Gle
mcnt.
Complaints have been received from tho leading
pnyslcians and families i'll the Southern States
OF the sale OF cheap limitations of the Schicdam
Aromatic Scnnapps IN those markets. and travel
ers who arc in the habit of using it an antdote
to the banctul influence of unwholcsome river
water, water testify that cheap GIN put up in Schicdam
bottles, is frequently palmed off upon the unwarv
The agents OF the undersigned have been requested
to institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
wara ware TO nm tho names OF such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged i'll 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 unamswerablc of the
purity and medicinal excellence of the Schicdam
Aromatic Schnapps; that he has expended many
Thousand dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards which ho designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent imita-
tons; that he has shown it to be the only liquor in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon
as unadulturated; that he has challenged invcsti
CATION, anaiysls, comparison, and experiment in
all lts forms: and from every ordeal the prcpa-
ration which bears his name, seal and trade mark
has come of triumphant He, therefore, feels il
duty he owes to his fellow citizens generally to
thc mculcal profession and tho sick, to dcnounce
and expose the Charlatans who counterfeit these
evidences Of identity, and he calls upon the press
and the public to aid him in his efforts TO remedy
so great an evil.
The following letters and certificates, from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city, will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the
undersigned are all they are represented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as being, in every respect, pre-cminently pure,
and deserving of medical patronage. At ali events,
it Is the purest possible article of Holland Gin,
heretofore unobtainablc; and, such, may be
safely prescribed by ply scians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
26 PINE STREET, New York, Nov 81, 1867
Udolpho Vote, Esq, Present.
DEAR SIR; have made chemical examination
of sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with
the intent of determining if any foreign orinjurous
substance had been added to the simple distilled
spirits.
DEAR SIR: Tho want of, pure Wines and Liquors,
for medicinal purposes, has been long felt by the
profession, and thousands OF lives have been sac
rihced by the nse of adulterated articles. Deriunl
tremens, and other diseases OF the brain and
nerves, so rife in this country, are very rare in