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Sfhirhan1 Sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLpHo WOLFE.
So'r Jmpo, 'cr If The ectieddm aromatic .Schdopps,
No 22 BcavCr-strcct.
Nnrn I.onu Nnxtrnhpr & 1868


No 2a Bcavcr-strcct.
NEW YonK, November 8. 1868.
TO the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. Hc therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeauard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t dii-
cult and dangerous. It wac submitted TO dfs,in'
guished chemists for analysis, AND pronounced oy
them the purest spirit ever manufactured It's puri.
y and properties having oeen thus ssoertained sa-
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IN
tho United S;.iso, for purposes OF experiment.
circular, requesting trial Of the preparation ana
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 unanimously favorable. Such a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all Of which were
more or less adul.e1ated. and therefore unit for
medical purposes. The peculiar ex ellence and
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one Of
the principal ingredients OF the schnapps, together
with an unaI1oyed character of the alcoholic eie-
ment. give it. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superc-:ty over every other diusiVe stinu-
liant as daurelic. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published In con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
Schnapps. enc Of the guarantees OF its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, O. fac sHitc OF he propI1e'ors
autograph signature was attached to each Label ind
cover his name aud that of the preparation were em-
bossed on the bottles and the corks sealed with
his private SEAL No article had ever been sold In
this country under the name Of schnapps prior to
the Introduction of wolfes schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in 1851; and the label was deposited, as
his trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year. Il
It might be supposed BY persons unncquainied
with the daring character Of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vend
ing deleterous trash under ther name, that the pro-
tscdons so carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the tnrcduchons and sale OF
counterteits. They seem, however only TO nave
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The rade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse-
men. which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendaoious humbuSs; bis labels and
bottles have been initiated. his Advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshonorable retailers. after disposins OF the genuine
contents OF hla bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dee,erous OF all liquors, and
thus made his namo and brInd q cover for poison.
be public, the medical profession and the SICK
for whom the schiedam Aromatic Sohnapps ID pre-
scrtbed US remedy, equally intoreae' with the
proprietor in the detection md suppression OF these
noiarious practices. The genuine altioc, manuao-
tured ut tie establishment OF the undersigned in
chiedlm, Holland, Is distilled from barley OF the
finest quality, aud favored with an essential extract
of the berry OF the Italian juriper OF uncquaed pl'
rity. By q process unknown In the preparation OF
apy othor LIQUOR It is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element.
Complaints have bsen received from the leading
physicians and families In the Southern States OF
mahc Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are In the habit OF using 1t as On antidoo TO tho
banefuI influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schied'n bottles Is
freoueutly palmed of upon the unwary. Tho
u,=uur.u OF ruU uDJerBIynGd naVo been reQuest5u 10
institute INQUIRIES on the subject and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascer.
tain to be engaged In the arocious system OF decep-
hon In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced. from under the hnnds Of the most
distinguished men Of science in America. proofs un
apswerable Of the purity md medicinal excel
lence OF the Sohiedam Aromatic Schnappe that
he has expended many thousand dollars In sur
rounding It with guarantees and safeguards, which
he DESIGNED should project the public and himself
AGAINST fraudulent limitations; thai he has shown 1t
to pe the only liquor IN the world that can be unI-
formIy depended upon o. dulterated that he has
challenged investigation. analysir. comparison and
experiment IN all Its iorms; and from eyery ordeal
the preparation viii bears hrs pame seal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant. BE, therefore. feels
IL duty he owes to ls fellow.citizens eeneray, 70
tho medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatsns who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity, and he calls upon the press and
The ubc to aid him in his efforts TO remedy grea.
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nlsts of this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold ny the under
signe arc all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.