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Sfbifhant Sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpuo WOLFE.
Sole Imp0, :cr of the Schiedan, Aromatic Schnopps
No. 22 Dcavcr-Strcet.
New York, November 5. 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:

No 22 Ecavcr-strcet.
New YORK, November j. 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 30 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDaM
sC3NAPPS, was introduced 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. He, therefore endeavorcd 10 invest II |
with strongest possible safeauard against counter
fciters and to lender all attempts to rlrate 1t diih
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted TO d'siin
gu,shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced o!
them The purest spirit manufactured lts purl-
ty and properties having oeen thus certalnca' sa
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment
circular, requesting trial of the preparation and
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
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession az no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, oil Of which were
more or less aduterated, and therefore unit Tor
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strength of the OF of JUNIPER which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the schnapps, together
with IN unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation OF the faculty.
marked super,o.:ty over every other difusiVe sEmu
ant as diureiic 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 as one of the guarantees OF its genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; a patent was obtained for the article, the
label was Copyrighted fac siaite Of the proprelors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover bus name and that of the preparation were EN-
tossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed with
bis private seal. No article had 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 the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons unacquainied
with the daring character of the pirates VINO prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by Veno'
ing eleterious trash under their name that the pro-
techons go carefully thrown around these schnappS
counterfeits They secm, however, only 10 nave
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The Tade
mark OF the proprietor has been stolen; the indorse-
ment which his Schiedum Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorabe retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filled them up with
common Gin, the most dele.erious OF all liquors, aud
thus mado his name and brInd q cover for poison
Tho public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schicdam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrbcd o remedy, aro equally interested with The
proprietor in the detection und suppression OF these
neiarous practices. Tho genuine article manuiac-
tured ut tie establishment of the undersigned in
chiedam, oland, ls distilled from barley OF The
finest quality and favored with m essential extract
OF tho berry OF the Itaion juuper oil unequaed pu'
rity By o process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor 1t is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schedam Aro-
mahc Schn1pps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it IN antidote to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river wafer. tes-
If, that cheap gin, put up In schiedam bottles Is
frequently palmed % eap1S tne unwary re
institute inquiries the subject and to forward TO
him the names of such parties they may asctr-
be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
tlon In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands of the most
distinguished men Of science In America, proofs un
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel.
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
LIE has expended many thousand dollars In sur.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor In the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he hos
challenged investigation, analysis. comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his name, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
IL duty he owes to his ellow-ctizcns generally, to
tho medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlaans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
Tho following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and henlsts of this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold by the under
signe u are oil that they are repre- ented TO be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
I1eel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as beng in every respect pre.eIninently pure. and
deserving or medical patronage. At all events it is
the purcst possible article OF Holland Gin hereto
lore unobtalnaule aud as such may be safely PR
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
t6 P1SE-sTREET, NEW YORK,
November 81, 1867.
UpoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made chemical examination OF
sample of your chedam Schnapps, with the in
tent vi determining If any foreign oripjurious sub
stance had beeu aided to the simple distilled spirits.
Ile e1uinlnutionLas resulted LII the conclusion
that the sample coitalncd nopolsonous or harmful
atuixture haze rern unable to discover any
truce OF the dclettrious substances wich are en-
ployed in the aduleraion Of liquors. | would not
hesitate to use myelf or to -ecommtnd to others,
tor medicinal purposes, the Schcdaln Schnapps as