The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-21

20 the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS, waR 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 Hc therefore, endeavored 10 invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous It was submitted to dtstin'
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced oy
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IN
the United States, for purposes OF experiment. a
circular, requesting trial OF the preparation anu
report of the result, accompanied each specimen.
-Four thousand Of the most eminent medical men IN
| the Union promptly responded. Their opiulons OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
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
moro or less adulterated, and therefore UNFIT for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oi of juniper, which formed one Of
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic eIe-
ment, give it. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked supero-ty over every other ditusiVe stimu-
liant as diurelic 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, rs one of the guarantees OF its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted fac smite OF the proprleors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that Of the'preparaton were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold IN
this country under the pame 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.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquained
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleerous trash under their namc that the pro-
tcctions 80 carefully thrown around these Schnnpps
would have precluded the introductons and sole Oh
counterfeits. They seem, however, only 10 nave
stimulated tho rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of til, proprietor has been stoen the lndorse
ment which his Scbiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has Deen
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been INFLATED, his advertisements para
phrnsed, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorable retailers, after disposng of the genuine
Of bio tofti hnyn
common gin, the most dele crious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and The sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps ls pre-
scribed as remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
netarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
turcd at the establishment OF tho undersigned in
chiedaln, Holland, is distilled FROM barley OF ihe
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the italian unper OF uncqualled pu-
1ity. BY O process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Con,pIaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern states OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using 1t as IN andoe to the
baneful influence of unwholcsome river water. tcs
rrr5 ri,e-., s,r~t la Schicdam bottles, Is
frequently palined or upon the unuary The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may nscrr-
tan to be engaged in the atrocious syste of decep-
tion In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has PROD uced 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
he has expended many thousand dollars In sur
rounding 1t 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 be uui-
formy depended upon as unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in allits forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his namc seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
It duty he owes 10 his tellow-citizens generally, to
tho medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denccs of identity, and no calls upon the press and
the publc to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
au evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists Of this city will
provo to the reader that all goods sold By the under
signe are all that they are repres cnted TO be.
UDOLPHo WOLFE.